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  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  marketing materials, and even a mysterious [annotation note="Does anyone have ... attracted your attention. Our basic approach to the purposes and goals of ... , abilities, preparation, and experience. The primary goal of the faculty is to

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  since my freshman year, and I just asked Grace to take a photo of her list ... , considering that I never went out of my way to do anything and most of the list ... England Aquarium - being a lover of aquariums and having been to half a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  , even with so much time, money, and energy invested in that outcome. Yet ... difficult concepts and brutal tests. It represented the final hurdle to being ... happens, but it's never too late to remember what you forgot and carry it

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  anything and everything else, once you’re on one side you do not want to ever ... , and on Tuesday the professor emailed me to “check in,” which has never ... , got back to my dorm around five, and made some notes:  # sorta realizing

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  mind. Humans haven’t managed to figure out much about consciousness and ... writing phase in middle and high school. I eventually moved on to RPG video ... majority of my free time (as it does), and during the year, the time that I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  'm now down from six to five--and my life feels much more manageable. I ... --the research and academics are, of course, first-rate, but I wanted to know what ... . My parents were pressuring me to be a premed and become a doctor (like

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  -hipster phase. I loved setting up ridiculous goals and then reaching them, just to ... that I was working to get into MIT. If I got into MIT, I’d be happy. And ... self-esteem drops to unprecedented lows. I applied early action, and on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  reaction to his perspective and at the idea that I was once just as excited ... self arrives to campus, you’re given a booklet with pages and pages of ... , at least there were always interesting things to do and think about

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  mother, brother and I would go to the local grocery store to buy things ... China, I was four years old. We arrived in Shanghai and went straight to ... thought it was wonderful, and would often repeat the phrase to myself, “we

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  them to my dad and asked “Does this sound like me?” In my essays, I ... spelling and grammar stuff. I could totally write a much less sappy ‘how to ... against major news platforms and don’t want to belittle stories that

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  'm on Google Scholar and everything! I submitted some of my research to ... creative problem solving in children, and my original UROP project was to ... been referring to Autotutor and Family: A Review of Seventeen Years of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  from 3pm to 6pm, and didn't make much progress. So Thursday I pulled an ... everything I could to raise my chances and still only got it up to a 50% - my ... extensions, I finally handed it in and, to my surprise, I got a 0. Turns out

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  of seven people. I read over the problems again, eyes moving to and ... , and my eyes both dart to and from material and see nothing at all. It ... schoolwork, and as my roommates come down to grab cups of water or make

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  it to the wall. Let's create a space that visualizes and appreciates ... displayed here have made to both MIT and their fields. However, we disagree ... recreating it to better reflect the diverse departments and people of SHASS

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  home because I was crying so much, and when I got to my house my parents ... . Apparently, my face was a sight to see. So yes I'm screaming and in much ... .  We had a snow day and when I called my grandmother to tell her, she

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  -Stokes equation, while the girl next to you does quantum physics and somebody else ... around and I'm like, "Oh no! It's the last time ever I'm going to forget to ... conversation. Or something like that." And then I get real sad, so I go back to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  EC alumni from this period are very much around, and have done a lot to ... two layers: a t-shirt and my winter coat. True to form, I had to shed ... legs and walk the length of the car. As I headed back to my seat, I

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  ? what if there is too much work? what if i want to just be a crazy college ... and family and drop everything if i need to make time for someone. "life ... simply do not have the energy to do so. here is some of what i have

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  popular that I once came ten minutes late for and had to sit on the floor ... It wasn't like I meant to do it. I was late for recitation, and I ... happened to be standing right there, going on about amide formation. And then

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  smile because we both know that this drive to learn and create is ... Chorallaries? Did you know that she is a foodie and loves to try new restaurants in Cambridge and Boston? Did you know that she does needlepoint

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024